KODIAK BEAR HUNT; Stalking the great bears of Alaska
Exposition Press. 1958 New York, 1st edn, 79pp. A thrill-packed account of a hunting trip for Kodiak bears, the largest carnivorous animal in the world.
Exposition Press. 1958 New York, 1st edn, 79pp. A thrill-packed account of a hunting trip for Kodiak bears, the largest carnivorous animal in the world.
Richard Bently and Sons. 1888 London, 1st edn, 261pp. Presented as a series of letters written home (presumably to his wife "Lena") this book gives an account of travel and hunting by this well-known sporting Brit. If contains hunting for moose, bighorn, grizzly and "white sheep" (probably Californa bighorn) in.....
Macmillan and Co. 1892 London, 1st edn, ix, [3], 300 pages, errata slip, 2 folding maps in color. From the Yukon river to the Bering sea in 1887. Moose, bear caribou. "To see the muskox and the Indians who hunt them, Pike made a hard journey to Great Slave Lake.....
Department of Lands and Forests. 1969 Ontario, 92pp, b&w photos, maps, large fold-out map in rear pocket. Softcover. Results of a study of wolves between 1958 and 1962 in Algonquin Provincial, Ontario. Study covers the density of wolves vs prey such as moose and deer as well as smaller mammals.....
Charles Scribner's Sons. 1941 New York, 1st edn, 131pp, color & b&w photos, end paper maps, one of 1200 unnumbered copies. Foreword by Nash Buckingham. Hunting for the giant brown bear in coastal Alaska. Queeny did a very good job producing this handsome well-written book. He must have had money.....
Rowland Ward. 1904 London, 1st edn, 278pp, illus, rear pocket map. Captain Radclyffe was an English gentleman-hunter who visited Alaska in 1903. He bagged Dall sheep on the Kenai Peninsula, then a relatively new destination for sport hunting. He shot excellent brown bear and moose, one a 57-incher on Kussiloff.....
Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 1908 New York, 1st edn, 173pp, illus. Throughout the Rockies and Tetons in Wyoming & Colorado, New Brunswick, Louisiana. Includes puma, antelope, black tailed deer (mule), moose, elk hunt, duck shooting and more. Most of the stories apparently appeared first in Forest and Stream magazine.....
Colorado Big Game Trophy Records, Inc. 1984 Colorado, second printing, 275pp, photos, tables. Historical records of the largest mule deer, elk and whitetail deer from Colorado. Lots of pictures, many of them historical.
Amwell Press. 1984 Clinton, NJ, 599pp, illus, ltd edn of 1000 signed, slipcased, numbered copies. Personal narrative of James Rikhoff, founder of Amwell Press. Hunting in Africa and North America, written by the founder.
Amwell Press. 1993 Clinton, NJ, 275pp, illus, ltd to 1000 signed, numbered slipcased, copies. Compilation of the author's monthly column in the American Rifleman magazine. Entertaining reading.
Amwell Press. 1981 Clinton, NJ, 438 & 470pp, 2 vol, illus, ltd edn of 1000 copies, signed, numbered, slipcased. The best hunting stories on all the great cats on the earth: tiger, leopard, lion, cougar, jaguar. Must reading for the cat hunter.
Amwell Press. 1984 Clinton, 1st edn, 2 vol, 478pp & 459pp, illus, slipcase, bound in leather, ltd to 1,000 copies. Anthology of mountain hunting throughout the world; contributions by Russell, Hornaday, Selous, Sheldon, Annabel, O'Connor, Roosevelt, Demidoff, and so on. A beautiful set bound in leather!
Amwell Press. 1994 Clinton, NJ, 411pp, illus, ltd to 1000 signed, numbered slipcased, copies. Largely excerpts from earlier Amwell books, mostly on North American mountain hunting, with some Asia mixed in.
1976-2004 Amwell Press book collection plus ephemera. A compete Amwell Press collection; contains 129 titles/multiple volume sets. The Amwell Press was an extension of the National Sporting Fraternity founded by Jim Rikhoff. It operated from 1976 to 2004 during which time it published some of the finest sporting literature of.....
Jimmy Robinson. 1947 Minneapolis, 160pp, b&w photos throughout. Stories of duck and goose shooting, elk hunting, famous shots (including Annie Oakley), a chapter on Fred Kimble (inventor of the choke bore). This is the saga of one of America's outstanding exponents of guns and gunning. In this book are recounted.....
Private printing. 1959 (nd, circa) Mexico, 322pp, private printing, limited to 1000 copies, color & b/w illus. Much on the author's safari to East Africa where he collected the big five plus plains game. His safari lasted many weeks and he covered most of the game found in that region.....
Charles Scribner's Sons. 1905 New York, 369pp, illus with printed tissue guards, printed on Ruisdael paper by the De Vinne Press, ltd to 260 copies signed by the author. After cougar, bear, antelope, sheep, deer, and wapiti. Fine work on the North American West by this dedicated hunter. The second.....
The Century Co. 1888 New York, 1st edn, 186pp, 94 drawings by Frederick Remington, frontis. Roosevelt roaming the West for bighorn, goat and his favorite the Rocky Mountain elk, also contains ranch life adventures. This is the only major Roosevelt hunting book that was NOT issued in a limited edition.....
Scribner's. 1914 New York, 1st edn, 382pp, illus, frontis, maps. This is an account of an expedition in the Brazilian wilderness for the American Museum of Natural History. As usual T.R. does plenty of hunting: jaguar, tapir, and various deer. This is an account of an expedition in the Brazilian.....
G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1893 New York, 1st edn, 472pp, illus. Roosevelt roaming the West for bighorn, goat, and his favorite: the Rocky Mountain elk. Also ranch life adventures. Nice thick book.
G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1902 New York, 472pp, illus. Roosevelt roaming the West for bighorn, goat and his favorite: the Rocky Mountain elk. Also ranch life adventures. Nice thick book.
Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. 1925 London, 339pp, illus, photo cover, limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Section I is on red stags in the United Kingdom and New Zealand (pages 1-136). In section II there is big-game hunting in Newfoundland, Australia, British Columbia, Africa, Malaysia and India.....
Amwell Press. 1988 Clinton, NJ, 225pp, illus, ltd to 1000 numbered, signed slipcased copies. Hunting in North America, New Zealand and Africa.
Holt Rinehart and Winston. 1966 New York, 303pp, drawings. Ruark's story of how his grandfather explained where the quail sleep at night, why the turkeys always fly uphill, how to fish the lakes and ponds. Set in the woods and fields of North Carolina. Ruark surpassing himself.
Holt Rhinehart and Winston. 1961 New York, 1st edn, 302pp, illus. Sequel to THE OLD MAN AND THE BOY, and every bit as good! Sought after, superior reading.